604988319729

One Room Country Shack And Other Struggling Blues

Mercy Dee Walton

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Format: CD

Cat No: JASMCD3197

Release Date:  02 December 2022

Label:  Jasmine Records

Packaging Type:  Jewel Case

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  604988319729

Genres:  Blues  Rhythm and Blues  

  • Description

    Mercy Dee Walton was a pianist, singer and songwriter, whose oeuvre encompassed blues, jump blues and R&B, invariably bewailing the unattractiveness of rural life.

    Invariably billed on record as just Mercy Dee, he remains chiefly important for his US Top 10 R&B hits 'Lonesome Cabin Blues (Log Cabin Blues)' and 'One Room Country Shack'. The latter song became established as a Blues standard, and was later closely associated with Mose Allison.

    A powerful body of work, this compilation is a selection of popular sides and rarities, recorded between 1949-55, variously for Spire, Imperial, Colony, Rhythm, Flair, and Specialty.

    His 1955 Flair release 'Come Back Maybellene', an answer disc to Chuck Berry's 'Maybellene', was a big record among specialist Rock & Roll collectors.

    He sadly died of a cerebral haemorrhage in 1962, just a year after recording a fine comeback album, "Mercy Dee", for Arhoolie.

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Baba-Du-Lay Fever (G. I. Fever)
      • 2. Lonesome Cabin Blues
      • 3. Evil And Hanky
      • 4. Homely Baby
      • 5. Bird Brain Baby
      • 6. Crepe On Your Door
      • 7. Straight And Narrow
      • 8. Old Fashioned Ways
      • 9. Pay Off (Anything In The World)
      • 10. Trailing My Baby
      • 11. Romp & Stomp Blues
      • 12. Oh, Oh, Please
      • 13. Come Back Maybellene
      • 14. Have You Ever (Alternate Take)
      • 15. Stubborn Woman
      • 16. One Room Country Shack
      • 17. My Woman Knows The Score
      • 18. Misery Blues
      • 19. The Great Mistake
      • 20. Strugglin’ With Blues
      • 21. Rent Man Blues
      • 22. Fall Guy
      • 23. The Drifter
      • 24. Winter Blues
      • 25. Get To Gettin’
      • 26. Dark Muddy Bottom
      • 27. My Woman And The Devil
      • 28. Problem Child